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The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

[6-text p 548] And whan þat he was come / he gan to crie 582 God saue quod he / this ioly compaignye ffast haue I pryked quod he / for ȝoure sake By cause / that I wolde / ȝow a-take 585 To ryden in the same / myrie compaignye his ȝeman was eke / ful of curteisie And seide sir[s] [[a hole in the MS.]] / now in the morwe tyde Out of ȝoure hostelrie / I saw ȝow ride 589 And warned heere my lord / & my souerayn which that to riden with ȝow / is ful fayn ffor his disport / he loueth daliaunce ¶ ffrend for thy warnynge / god ȝeue the good chaunce Thanne seide oure hoost / for certeyn it wolde seme Thy lord were wys / and so I may wel deme he is ful iocunde / also dar I leye Can he ought telle / a mery tale or tweye 597 with which he glade may / this compaignye who sire my lord / ȝa ȝa with-outen lye he can of myrthe / and eke of iolytee Nat but I-now / also sire trusteth me 601 And ȝe him knew / as wel as do I Ȝe wolde wondre / how wel and craftily he coude werke / and that in sondry wyse He hath take on him / many a gret emprise [folio 203a] 605 which were ful hard / for any þat is heere To brynge a-boute / but they of him it lere As homly as he ryt / a-monges ȝow If ȝe him knewe / it wolde be for ȝoure prow 609 Ȝe wolde nat forgon / his acqueyntaunce ffor mechel good / I dar leye in balaunce Al that I haue / in my possession he is a man / of heigh discresion 613 I warne ȝow wel / he is a passyng man wel quod oure hoost / I preye the telle me than Is he a Clerk or noon / telle what he is Nay / he is grettere than a Clerk / I-wys 617
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The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,
1902.

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